| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. By Duncan Andrew Campbell. (Suffolk, Eng.: Boydell, 2003. viii, 266 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-86193-263-3.)
For many decades after the American Civil War, historians believed that the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy while liberals and the working classes favored the Union. Although this interpretation has been questioned for some time, Professor Duncan Andrew Campbell's goal is to suppress it conclusively by examining statements from the British press and those made by liberals, aristocrats, and politicians during the conflict.	1
According to Campbell, neither the Union nor the Confederacy gained unqualified support because all classes were suspicious of both combatants. The greatest obstacles to support for the Union were concerns about American expansionism, William H. Seward's blustering early in the war, and the impact of the Morrill tariff. Even many antislavery Britons failed to rally to the Union cause because of Abraham Lincoln's initial reluctance to strike out at slavery. For Confederates the chief drawbacks were slavery and the cotton embargo. Most Britons were reluctant to side with a rebellion whose success would perpetuate human bondage, and they were well aware that the failure to get cotton during 1861 and 1862 was due to the South's self-imposed embargo and not the blockade.	. . .

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